Type locality: Pailas, a tambo on the trail between Sevilla de Oro and Méndez, on the eastern or notheastern facing slope, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

Reproduction

oviparous

Types

Holotype: USNM 229646

Diagnosis

Comment

Etymology

The specific epithet, stigmatoral, is an noun in apposition formed from the Greek noun stigma, -tos, mean- ing spot, and the Latin noun toral, -alis, meaning valance. The name refers to the ventrolaterally positioned spots characteristic of this species.

Doan, T. M. & Castoe, T.A. 2005. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cercosaurini (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), with new genera for species of Neusticurus and Proctoporus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 143: 405–416.